PRAGMATICISM


Meaning of PRAGMATICISM in English

/prag mat"euh siz'euhm/ , n.

the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.

[ 1905; PRAGMATIC + -ISM ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .